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It's sad to contemplate the notion that God may think that the most important issue facing this country today is homosexuality--or at least that a sizable voting bloc thinks so.
It would be hilariously funny if this false notion wasn't so harmful to so many people in the country whose civil rights are threatened by it.
I have to wonder if these people actually READ the bible rather than listening to whatever they are told God likes and dislikes by FOX news or whatever other self-proclaimed religious guru claiming to speak for Jesus is out there.
Note that Jesus never mentioned homosexuality (or abortion) even once. In fact, abortion is NEVER mentioned anywhere in scriptures, and homosexuality can be found perhaps around seven times and never in any of the gospels. (And is usually taken out of context when interpreted for political motives.) I suppose it wasn't considered that important compared to all of the other things that God actually gets angry about throughout scripture.
Such as idolatry, and putting other gods before him...something that God's prophets address over and over and over. (And it's even one of the 10 commandments!) These other gods, by the way, are not just human-created gods such as Marduk and Cybele and the like. They are money and wealth, material goods, kings and other political figures, ideologies, nationalism, and the like.
Contempt for the poor is another big issue God gets extremely angry about and regularly condemns individuals and entire nations over it.
I'm thinking if people actually READ the bible...the *whole* bible and not just cherry-picked verses to support whatever political ideologies they think are important...then perhaps they could see all of these other things, provided that the Holy Spirit allows them to see. I suspect that the Holy Spirit may be concealing it from many though since one would have to be utterly blind to read through scriptures and still not have a clue concerning Spirit-filled Christian behavior.
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